movie review

Reviewing the best science fiction movies from the past, present, and future.

AI as a Reflective Surface
Much of the confusion surrounding artificial intelligence comes from treating it as an agent rather than a surface. When people speak about AI “doing the thinking,” “creating the ideas,” or “speaking for someone,” they are often projecting agency onto a system that does not possess intention, belief, or understanding. This projection obscures what is actually happening in many real-world uses. In those cases, AI is not acting as a source of meaning, but as a surface that reflects, redirects, and reshapes what is already present.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 days ago in Futurism
Mad Max
1979 was a stellar year for horror and sci-fi blockbusters: Alien, Phantasm, The Amityville Horror, The Brood, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Dracula—and that’s just to name a few.
By Tom Baker4 days ago in Futurism
Home Alone Cast
Home Alone Cast: Then and Now – A Complete Look at the Stars Behind the Classic Movie writer: king pokhtoon Home Alone is one of the most loved family movies of all time. It was released in 1990 and quickly became a holiday classic. Even after more than three decades, people still enjoy watching it, especially during the winter and Christmas season. The movie is funny, emotional, and full of memorable scenes. One big reason for its success is its cast. The actors gave life to the characters and made the story unforgettable.
By king pokhtoon15 days ago in Futurism
The Era of Agentic AI
For the past three years, we’ve been smitten with "prompt engineering." We’ve interacted with AI as we would an oracle in an "answer cave": we came before its text box, articulated a question thoughtfully, and then waited for an answer. However, as we find ourselves in 2026, so is the passing of the era of "static prompts." We are now in the "Age of Agentic AI."
By Artical Mediaabout a month ago in Futurism
The Stranger Things Universe is Just Getting Started
Just when you thought the story was winding down, the Duffer Brothers have delivered exciting news that has fans buzzing once again. With multiple spin-offs in the works, the world of Stranger Things is far from over. In fact, it might only be getting started.
By Info Post Gateabout a month ago in Futurism
Star Crash
Star Crash is a wonky, bottom-feeder Star Wars rip-off from 1978, with an ensemble cast of cult movie icons, including Marjoe “Mausoleum” Gortner, Caroline Munro, Joe “Maniac” Spinell, Christopher Plummer, and—by God—the Hoff himself, David Hasselhoff, pre-"Knight Rider," pre-"Baywatch," but still every bit the sexy-bad muthafucka.
By Tom Baker2 months ago in Futurism
Dracula, Sovereign of the Damned
Dracula, Sovereign of the Damned is an anime from Toei Studios, dating from 1980, based on Marvel's Tomb of Dracula comic. Marvel's Dracula once tried to kidnap Storm until Kitty Pryde showed up and drove his blood-sucking butt out the window wielding the Star of David. Apparently, Dracula is anti-Zionist.
By Tom Baker2 months ago in Futurism
Blade Runner . Top Story - December 2025.
These days, androids might very well dream of electric sheep. In 1982, not so much. Blade Runner takes place six years in our past, as per the present timeline. Other timelines, we don't know. Perhaps there, Replicants rule the lives of meat sacks, and the Imperial Skinjobs are all as beautiful as Rutger Hauer or Daryl Hannah are in Blade Runner.
By Tom Baker2 months ago in Futurism
Review of 'Mission Impossible: 'Dead Reckoning' and 'Final Reckoning'
May 2025 With all the promotion of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, set to debut in U.S. theaters in the next few days, I thought it was high time to see Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, released in 2023, and which is actually Part 1 of the two-part story which will conclude with The Final Reckoning.
By Paul Levinson2 months ago in Futurism
Stereo and Crimes of the Future
"Jomkin suggests that there must evolve a novel sexuality for a new species of man." — Crimes of the Future Before he became the cinematic master of body horror, David Cronenberg was an experimental student filmmaker who turned out works very much in line with the same sort of fixations explored almost exclusively by J.G. Ballard, whose Crash he later adapted into a film, in 1997. His early films, his first two, Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970), explore film technique in documenting the huge, yawning architectural environment of an unspecified hospital or research facility, relegating the performers of the film to almost being secondary actors in a drama defined by geometrical shape—relegating them to the roles of insectile life, pursuing strange, even inscrutable actions, ostensibly being filmed by the watchful, clinical, and coldly detached robotic eye of the viewer, who becomes the de facto research assistant to the director, who seems to have made this film by asking his performers to improvise within the framework of derangement. What was he exploring? one wonders. The environment itself dwarfs the humanity of the filmic subjects, overpowering them in its specter of geometrical dominance and dimension.
By Tom Baker3 months ago in Futurism
Why Nessarose Truly Became Wicked: The Tragic Story No One Talks About
Everyone knows Elphaba — the green-skinned rebel who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. But almost nobody stops to ask the more heartbreaking question:
By Bella Anderson3 months ago in Futurism
Wicked for Good Review: A Magical Messy Finale or a True Oz Delight?
Wicked for Good is the long-awaited second half of the Wicked movie story. Like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or Kill Bill, the story was simply too big to squeeze into one film. The result? A two-part cinematic event—and now we’re at the finish line.
By Info Post Gate3 months ago in Futurism